Avodat Gershuni responsa, by Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi. Frankfurt am Main, [1699]. First edition.
On title page: Signature of Rabbi "Itzik Grishaber of Krakow". Long scholarly marginalia, apparently in his handwriting.
On the leaf before the title page are many signatures and inscriptions: A signature of Rabbi "Zvi Hirsh Heller…Av Beit Din of Bonyhád" from 1819, signatures of his son-in-law Rabbi "Ya'akov Yeshaya Reich of Lesko", who writes in 1820 that the book belonged to his father-in-law; signature of Rabbi "Yechezkel Feivel of Lemberg". Signature in Oriental script of the well-known influential "Nissim Shmamo", etc.
Rabbi Yitzchak Itzik Grishaber-Freund (1741-1822), disciple of the Nodah B'Yehuda. Av Beit Din of Paks (Hungary) from 1782. Exchanged halachic correspondence with the author of the Chatam Sofer who highly praised him in his writings. In 1797, he strongly opposed the reform Rabbi Aharon Choriner who permitted eating the non-kosher fish Acipenser Ruthenus and his correspondence on the subject with the rabbis of his times and printed the issue in his book Makel Noam (Vienna, 1799).
The famous Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Heller (1776-1835, Encyclopedia L'Chachmei Galicia, Vol. 2 pp. 665-671), leading Hungarian Rabbi, called "Rabbi Hirsh Charif" because of his sharp (charif in Hebrew) intellect served as Rabbi in Brzesko (Galicia) and later, head of the yeshiva in Brody. Was forced to flee the city following a slander, reached Hungary and served in the rabbinate of the Bonyhád, Uzhhorod and Óbuda communities. Some of his disciples became prominent Torah scholars such as Rebbe Zvi Hirsh of Lesko and Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. Author of Tiv Gittin novellae and other works. His son-in-law Rabbi Ya'akov Yeshaya Reich of Lesko was a descendent of Rabbi Shaul Av Beit Din of Amsterdam.
[4], 94, [4] leaves. 29 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Several leaves with worming. Half-leather ancient damaged binding.